Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Woman sees God raising the bar in daughters' lives

I am so joyous and honored to share the miracles God is working in my life as each day I yearn to move closer to Him in prayer, worship, reading His Word and in giving of my time and talent to serve Him. He has shown me how faithful He is to those who truly love Him.
It has just been about 7 years since Jesus called me to make Him the Lord and Savior of my life. Sadly, I had previously lived a very worldly lifestyle and did not bring up my 2 daughters in the church. After a painful divorce from my ex-husband, who is not a believer, my older daughter was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. She pronounced that she was an atheist, wrote a suicide note and took an entire bottle of pills. She made it through, but struggled with suicidal throughts and deep depression for many years. My younger daughter who had always been a very loving person, turned to anger, defiance and alcohol and ended up on probation and eventually in jail this past summer.
Through it all, I have prayed on my knees for countless hours, prayed for my girls in front of them and with them, read and slept with my Bible wrapped in my arms. I have continued to sing praise and worship to my God each day in my car and each week in church. Each day I have asked God to give me the strength through it all to model the love of Christ for them.
Christ working through me and my fiance has born fruit that are miracles in front of my eyes. With my older daughter, we never suggested that she come to Christ, the Holy Spirit was doing that work in front of our eyes as we saw her life changing. She came to Christ this past Easter at CVC and she told me about her decision after the service: we hugged and cried. She now tells me that she no longer has to fight for the will to live since Christ entered her life.

She is a singer and gifted musician, and God is urging her to use those gifts in a church. God has now brought a wonderful Christian young man into her life who has just graduated from a Christian college.
I was unsure as to whether my younger daughter was ready to go away to college this year, but God amazingly intervened and placed her with two Christian roommates who had Scripture posted all over their Facebook pages proclaiming their love for God and His importance in their lives. And just this past weekend I saw my daughter's Facebook site, and under the religion category it said "Jesus Is My HomeBoy."
These are prayers that five years ago I would have said were impossible. But with God, all things are possible!

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